9/11 True Narrative

New York, New York! I am finally done with high school and can enjoy a relaxing vacation with my best friend. “The stories of this place are so cool!” Said Octavia. “I know! Like the one about Philippe Petit, the guy who walked across the Twin Towers on a steel cable!” I told her(Abbott 10). We arrived at our hotel room at 8:30 am, and we had a tour of the city at 9. We had to start getting ready. “Our room has a balcony!” Yelled Octavia. The view was breathtaking. Every gust of wind that hit my face made me want to live in New York forever. It was 8:40, and I hadn’t even started getting ready because I was taking in the view. “Look,” I said to Octavia. We both turned around to take a glimpse at the beautiful Twin Towers when at 8:46 a plane
When we got back, we took time to relax and follow the news. As we sat there, we had to listen to horrific facts about this event. They told us that approximately 3,000 people had lost their lives(Friedman 51) 9/11 caused 1,600 extra deaths due to traffic accidents(Kick ass facts). The news reporter broke the news that in the North Tower 1,402 people died, in the South Tower 614 people died, in Flight 11 ninety-two people died, in the United Airlines Flight sixty five people died, 345 firefighters/ paramedics and sixty police were killed(O’Keefe 18). As soon as I heard that, I broke down in
The hijackers were led by Mohamed Atta(Friedman 46). He had a PHD in City Planning, which probably made it a little easier to train his people(Abbott 18). The name of the terrorist group that Mohamed led, and the ones who attacked was al-Queda(Friedman 44).
They started talking about how there had been many failed terrorist attack attempts(Friedman 43). The government paid on average of 1.8 million dollars to the families of 9/11 victims(Kick ass facts). The news channel went on to say that the only off duty officer who died that day was filling out his retirement papers when the attack started(Kick ass facts). Something that stuck out to me in the report was that a Muslim community collected 11,170 pints of blood for injured people(Kick ass facts).
Finally, Bush made a speech. He said that he was sorry that he couldn’t do anything earlier, and he had to watch the news channels on 9/11 in an empty classroom(O’Keefe 7). He said that this was the hardest thing that he has ever had to do, especially when he had only been President for eight months(O’Keefe 15). He ended his speech with, “9/11 was the deadliest terrorist attack the U. S has ever faced in history(Friedman